Essential Question: How does being a bystander or upstander affect other people’s lives?
Common Core Standards: College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
Key Ideas and Details
3. Analyze how and why individuals, events or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
8. Gather relevant information information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source and the information while avoiding plagiarism.
Desired Results: Students will use VoiceThread to demonstrate, andexplain how one person can make a difference in the lives of others. Students will follow a path of an individual during either South African Apartheid, the Holocaust, or the Rwandan Genocide.
Upstanders and Bystanders Project
Essential Question:
How does being a bystander or upstander affect other people’s lives?
Common Core Standards:
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
Key Ideas and Details
3. Analyze how and why individuals, events or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing
6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
7. Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.
8. Gather relevant information information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source and the information while avoiding plagiarism.
Desired Results:
Students will use VoiceThread to demonstrate, andexplain how one person can make a difference in the lives of others. Students will follow a path of an individual during either South African Apartheid, the Holocaust, or the Rwandan Genocide.